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Advantages: bonus disc features loads of interesting extras
Disadvantages: the sexual violence is a little too crude

Pulp Fiction (winner of the Palm d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival) features three intertwined storylines. The film jumps back and forth between: Bruce Willis as a boxer who has made a deal with the mob to lose a match, John Travolta taking out his boss' wife and getting into a heap of trouble, and Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson's misshaps over an 'accidental' murder. One of the best moments of the films features a moment between Travolta and Uma ...
...mistakenly shoots up heroine and Travolta needs to drive a huge needle through her chest in order to save her. This is, of course, Tarantino's most well known film and deserves all the award winning acclaim it has been given. This 2 disc special collector's edition features a bonus disc full of great extras. It goes behind the scenes of the film and offers various articles and reviews and also has a production design featurette. Overall, if you liked ... Read review

Advantages: A funny and enjoyable experience
Disadvantages: Erm...you might not like Woody Allen

Annie Hall was the 'breakout' film for Woody Allen as a director. The film won four Academy awards including best picture/director and saw Allen move away from the freewheeling comedy films he was best known for at the time. Annie Hall is essentially about the relationship between Alvy Singer (Allen), a typically neurotic Allen character, in this case a comedian, and aspiring singer Annie Hall, played by Diane keaton in an Oscar winning performance. ...
...between Alvy and Annie's family. Annie Hall begins with Allen speaking straight to the camera as Alvy. The scene is an immediate indication that Allen has moved on and is seeking to make a different type of picture with more ambition. Alvy's very Woody Allen concerns give us an insight into his character and make an arresting beginning; "There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the ... Read review

Advantages: Mel Brook on top form
Disadvantages: Availability

...to write anything more because the other two guys have wonderful taste and are more than capable of telling you just how good this film is. But according to IMBD there’s going to be another film in 2005 called The Producers starring some of today’s rising young stars. This is sacrilege. Can you imagine anyone better than Gene Wilder? Can you imagine a young hunky muscled Adonis playing opposite Richard Prior? They’re playing with history. But why ...
...remake it? Just re-release the original on DVD with deleted scenes, a nice feature documentary of the making and interview with Mel Brooks and sell it at an inflated cost as a special edition and you can scrape a few extra dollars out of this wonderful flick. So anyway I’ve had my rant and I want you to see this film. So I will conform to the normal confines of a review and try not to bully you all the way to the Video shop. Perfect performances ... Read review

Advantages: entertaining
Disadvantages: sometimes a bit over the top

...you will have to like the musicsl side of films i suppose its the same kind of film to moulon rouge with the over acting on certen things and the music uma thurman is in the film she plays her part well considering i dont think she has played a part like this befor with all the singing and dancing she was doing and with the added sex appel she had made that entertaining on its own . its one of thoes films you have to see for youself but it is good ... Read review

Advantages: Great script, great soundtrack, star studied cast
Disadvantages: very litte, if you're not a fan of swearing or violence however i'd avoid

...cast on the scale of Pulp Fiction, Travolta, Willis, Jackson and Thurman. Star studied is not quite the word! One of the greatest scripts of all time without doubt and an intriguing structure. Each scene creates one of those pop culture talking points. From the humour of the "royale with cheese" to the menace of the Ezekiel speech. There are numerous instances of Tarantino brilliance that could be picked out. The film runs an enjoyable course whilst ...
...torch to the quality of Pulp Fiction. If this film is yet to be in your collection then make that change today, an essential part of an filmography. Timeless and an inspiration to many films since, however, none have the charisma, wit and excellence displayed here. Furthermore, Tarantino's ear for a great record has propelled some of the older records back to the forefront of our culture and tracks like Al Green's Lets Stay Together and Dusty Springfield's ... Read review